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The Art Institute of Chicago has a large collection of transcripts of interviews with 20th Century architects “who shaped the physical environment in Chicago and surrounding communities”. Many of them are mid-century modernists who were well known in their day. Unfortunately, most have passed on and are becoming forgotten.

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From: House & Garden, 1954 Below are photos taken around 2004 for the Texas Historic Marker Application and an excerpt describing the house “The 1950 Mary Wood and Hugo V. Neuhaus, Jr., House is a one-story, steel and wood-framed, flat-roofed, glass-and-brick-walled modem pavilion that reflects the influence of Ludwig Mies van der Robe and Philip […]

From Wiehle-Carr: Set far back from the street, this superior two-story modern residence was designed for a sculptor (EV Staude) and her husband by one of LA’s premier architects of the post World War 2 period. A working studio at the rear of the property by Frank Lloyd Wright-influenced designer Ted van Fossen had preceded […]